It would be cool if the colors that correspond to the FG and BG numbers could be displayed as part of the module, kind of like a key, underneath the "Display Text" button. And if not the actual colors in a table, then at least a text key like 1 = grey, 153 = yellow, etc.

Also, calling the parameter "delay" makes me think it is going to delay that many seconds BEFORE displaying. How about "show" or "disp" or "display" or "time" or "length" or "secs" instead?

And speaking of delay, it might be cool to actually HAVE a delay option, because my PC is in a different room from my TiVo. I could put a delay of 20 seconds on the commmand, submit it, then run in and watch it pop up 20 secs later!

And there is a typo in your readme file in your "Installation" paragraph. You misspelled the first mention of "newtext2osd."

Only negative feedback is that you can read letters that dip down like "g". Box needs to be bigger around text.

-Jym-

This is newtext2osd, not the module. The author did this to get more lines onto the screen. I think it bought another 5 or 6 lines.

I have modified newtext2osd to get rid of the whitespace between lines, which has the side effect of making the problem a wee bit better. I PM-ed the author about it some time ago, but it looks like he has vanished into the ether. I guess I should go ahead and post my modification. I like it much better than the version all those little lines...

The zombies must be caused by the module terminating before the child (newtext2osd) process. I will have to do some investigation on this. Unless you have lots of messages, the zombies won't hurt - they don't take up processor time, they just count towards the maximum number of processes (whatever that is).

I was just being tounge-in-cheek in my example of a laundry machine sending a DisplayText to the Tivo, but I read this today:

Quote:

[B]Laundry System Goes to College[\B]

I.B.M. and USA Technologies have teamed up to launch a web-based laundry system for college dormitory laundry rooms. ... The best feature of this system is that when the laundry load is finished, e-Suds will send an email to the student's computer or text message to their cell phone notifying them. The e-Suds program was tested at a campus in Boston and passed with top grades.

After some investigation of zombies, I was not able to find a resolution I liked. For example, I want the web page to return immediatly and not wait for the text message to go away first. That way, multiple messages may be sent in a row to display several lines on the screen.

However, the zombie problem is not really a problem after all. Every time displaytext runs, it cleans up all current zombies so there is no problem with zombies filling up the process table.

For those of us linux challenged in the group, could you provide more elaborate steps for install? I know I need to untar the files, but I don't know where to start. In addition, I assume I need to chmod them as well.

It depends on how the HAS provides you with the information you want to display. You could probably use the Windows Scripting Host (WSH) to capture the information and send it to the TivoWeb. WSH can be programmed in either JScript or VBScript.